Tuesday, May 01, 2007

Aristocratic Inter-Planetary News

Just to put things in perspective for us soccer fans in America, there was a big article in the New York Times today about the building of new baseball parks for the both the New York Yankees and Mets. The article also talked about the sports facility boom in the area: New arena in Newark for the Devils hockey team, new arena in Brooklyn for the Nets basketball team, and new football stadium in the Meadowlands for the Jets and Giants. But the article made NO mention of Red Bull Park being built.~and-Remember this name - Alex Nimo! He scored 2 goals to lead the USA U17's to 3-0 win over T&T in first game of CONCACAF Youth World Cup qualifying (see details below).

MLS game last night:-Salt Lake 0-2 Colorado - goals by Roberto Brown & Kyle Beckerman.Match report by James Edwards of the Deseret Morning News. - RSL defender Danny Torres took the loss personal and very hard.More post-game notes from Edwards who says Colorado's Pablo Mastroeni continued to fan the rivalry flames after another win.Match Report from the Salt Lake Tribune.Match report from the Rocky Mountain News.Post-game notes by George Tanner of the RMN blog FC Rocky.Match report from John Meyer at the Denver Post. Said Pablo Mastroeni: "We got a great result and we did it in a place where the (Real) guys are more worried about us taunting their fans than they actually are playing the game." And said Kyle Beckerman: "We like to send them home unhappy. They run their mouth the whole game. If their team is mad when we celebrate, tell them to win the game."-I have only seen the first half of this game so the notes will have to come tomorrow.-Just launched yesterday FireEllinger.com (thanks to D for sending the linkage). My only problem with this blog is that they rally for Colin Clarke as their next coach. Sweet Sunny Jim that's a bad idea. He was terrible in Dallas. Just ask his former fans & players.~ ~ ~ ~ ~

Landon Donovan was named MLS Player Of The Week.-We all go up and down in our fandom for Landon, but check this stat out - In his 49 games with the Los Angeles Galaxy, LD has 25 goals & 21 assists. That is incredibly impressive.~ ~ ~ ~ ~

2 Americans went head to head in England yesterday:Marcus Hahnemann & Reading 1-0 Newcastle & Oguchi Onyewu-Hahnemann went the full match as usual and got another clean sheet-Onyewu was an unused sub-A big story in the game was the return of Michael Owen to Newcastle. He has not played since suffering a bad knee injury last summer at the World Cup. He played the full 90.~ ~ ~ ~ ~

A big du Nord favorite Phillip Cocu has announced he will leave PSV this summer when the window opens.~ ~ ~ ~ ~

Unfortunately, but not surprisingly, Man City midfielder Joey Barton is in trouble again. He has been in many fights and even extinguished cigars in people's faces. This time he got in a fight with a teammate during Man City training and has now been suspended for the rest of the season by the club. The teammate was sent to the hospital.~ ~ ~ ~ ~

AFP with the story of Schalke's long wait for a title. They are in first place in the Bundgesliga, but the race with Stuttgart and Werder Bremen is very tight with several games still to play. I personally have terrible memories of Schalke's stadium as that is where I sat through the USA-Czech Republic debacle at last summers World Cup.~ ~ ~ ~ ~

Germany & Chelsea midfielder Michael Ballack has had surgery on a bad ankle. It is not a major operation but he will be out of action for at least a couple of weeks. He is missing some big games right now for Chelsea.~ ~ ~ ~ ~

3 Comments:

Moibus said...

What's truly mind-boggling about the New York Times sports page isn't the complete lack of coverage they give soccer (or as in the case you cite, even acknowledge it in an obvious situation) for a supposedly national/internatonal publication---it's the stuff they do cover. There's been an enormous article about horse racing every day this week. Horse racing. A sport that's deader than having an antendent pump your gas and that I'm not sure anyone under 75 is actually aware exists.

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